Bad partition information? Have you tried killing all the partitions manually and then starting over? GPartEd can be downloaded as a LiveCD iso. You can use that to delete the partition(s), then start the restore again.

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Bad partition information? Have you tried killing all the partitions manually and then starting over? GPartEd can be downloaded as a LiveCD iso. You can use that to delete the partition(s), then start the restore again.

It would help if you posted the exact error message, but it may be referring to the Windows folder of your recovery partition if that is what you are using to "destructively recover" which I'm guessing means re-installing windows cleanly.

If you aren't using a recovery partition maybe your CD is scratched or bad.

I did not intiate the whole destructive recovery bit, I got involved after error popped up.

And would I actually be using the windows directory if the recovery process is started in dos. How would a preset installed recovery process ever work if that was the case.

The story is, somebody got it in there head that they needed to completely reset machine. Got 98% done and would then spit out numerous errors stating: "Could not recover C:/WINDOWS/......." It did that for EVERY file in the windows folder. Thats when they called me.

A program I love for finding things users forget they stored in C:\ or Sent faxes is windirstat. This shows all the folders on the hard drive and organizes them from largest to smallest. Expand a folder and it does the same for the contents, showing a % of the parent folder each subfolder or file is using.

Perfect tool for finding hidden folders full of user data that they aren't savvy enough to find outside of the program they use it in.

Thanks for the info Garrett, it will come in handy I'm sure. Unfortunately, the person neglected to tell me that they had recently had a chip replaced. Where they had it done at did not configure the tatoo code correctly. So the discs we're not recoginizing the computer they were made for. Thanks for all the advice.

Had to replace hard drive.

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